Expertise

Areas of Expertise:

  • Music theory (Western and Japanese)
  • Music composition
  • World music
  • Traditional Japanese music and culture
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to music analysis
  • The music of Morton Feldman
  • Music and ritual in Rinzai Zen Buddhism

Professor Nuss is currently at work on a collection of essays that explores the influences of Jewish devotional and ritual thought in the music of Morton Feldman.

Affiliations

Associate Professor, Music Department, Division of Humanities, Colby College

Communities
Music
Degrees
PhD, University of New York, Music Theory, 1996
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BM